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On a whim yesterday I decided to use an old Fair Isle pattern from my machine knitting days to make a hand knit egg cosy! I wrote up the pattern today and would like to share it with you here Fair Isle Chicks Egg Cosy

These cute Fair Isle Chicks look gorgeous decorating an egg cosy for your Easter breakfast table, however they could also be used on any number of projects – hats, mittens, scarves and so on.

You could also use the cosy to cover chocolate eggs for the children as an Easter surprise!

The cosy is an easy and quick knit, an ideal first Fair Isle project, why not make more than one using different colour combinations.

I used a double knit weight yarn; however you could use a chunky yarn for larger owlets or a finer, 4ply yarn to make smaller ones. The owlets make lovely decorations and a smaller size would look sweet on your Christmas tree!

This cute Snowman Christmas Jumper knitting pattern is now available in my online shops. The jumper pattern includes sizes for babies and toddlers up to 48 months. The smaller sizes would make a lovely set with my Snowman Booties and Snowman Baby Hat patterns.

The youngest, having hit 18, is not now as helpful with writing and uploading posts

Basil is STILL on a diet!

The household has inherited another cat – Smudge

Basil is put out

The Knitter is still knitting

The Knitter has had to master blogging

Inspired by the arrival of autumn, my latest project is these cute ‘Woodlanders’ Swiss darned onto fingerless mittens. The mittens are knit flat, which makes adding the motifs a lot easier before sewing up the side seam. Check them out in my shops (see sidebar).